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Say you install an unstable/dev library, and you develop your app with it. You finish testing your app, you're ready to roll it into production, but the *library* hasn't come out of unstable/dev yet. That's what the policy's about.

This billion dollar guys are relying on free software (read CPAN) to do their job and they won't even take the hassle of testing a new version of this module which has been fixed for them and for free???

Of course, you should release the changes on CPAN, so that they perceive this as "stable". The world is awesomely funny...:)

I did say *some* sense, not "perfect sense."It's one of the minor peeves I have with CPAN, though: it's not terribly clear to newbies exactly how mere mortals might go about testing a module, or submitting a new release. Those big red "UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE"s are not exactly confidence-inspiring when one is showing one's boss. Especially when one is part of a "billion-dollar company," which is generally synonymous with "hidebound bureaucracy," especially if there's government contracts involved.